It has come to my attention that aeration of muck might be a viable solution to removing the muck in the canals and tributaries of the Indian River Lagoon.

A Jan. 25 article in the Melbourne Beachsider, "Aeration system tested in anti-muck crusade," discusses a setup of a yearlong aeration test in a Satellite Beach canal by FIT and Allied Group USA of Orlando. The results will be compared to a like canal that doesn't have the system. Additionally, a company in the Keys, Florida Keys Aeration, has since 2004 been successful in clearing muck and building air curtains to keep weeds and floating debris from entering canals and harbors. See link: flkeysaeration.com.

If this technique is successful then it would be much cheaper than dredging and would be recurring. The Shore View Lane canal in District 5 would be ideal for aeration and ultimately an air curtain to keep the debris from blowing into the canal, sinking and decaying. Currently the county Natural Resources Management office doesn't have this canal on its list to dredge.

Fleming Law, Indialantic

Poll on Electoral College 'tainted'

Dave Berman's Feb. 4 Political Spin column is just that — political spin. Pamela Goodman states that "Floridians' voices are diminished by the winner-take-all rule related to the Electoral College." This is just another tainted poll, folks. What polls have been relevant in the past year?

Our wise founding fathers feared "factions," which they defined as groups of citizens who have a common interest in some proposal that would either violate the rights of other citizens or would harm the nation as a whole. It's dubbed the "tyranny of the majority," which is a faction that could grow to encompass more than 50 percent of the population, at which point it could "sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the right of other citizens."

In other words, without the Electoral College, California and New York would qualify as a faction and elect a president, bypassing a majority of voters in other states. This was well demonstrated in the 2016 presidential election. The only reason we are having to remind Americans of this institution is because Hillary lost, and had she won, there would crickets on this subject.

Gary Peck, Merritt Island

FISA court 'was never told truth'

I want to thank recent letter writer Louise Rosevelt for her humorous response to the facts contained in the recently released Nunes memo, but for opinion to be effective it must contain valid rebuttal data. Her accusations were simply a partisan attack revealing the panic when you find your side got caught in corrupt activities.

The memo raises many questions; Why did Comey, Yates, Rosenstein, and McCabe each sign for the renewal of the warrant issued by the FISA court, which has the absolute requirement that what is submitted must be substantiated? The court was never told the truth. Comey himself indicated the dossier had not been confirmed as objective evidence, it was fiction. In fact, it was a fabrication by Michael Steele, with some input coming from Hillary’s campaign, which reportedly paid him over $8,000,000 dollars for the dossier — and then the FBI paid Steele more money for more of the same.

Now we have Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page having an affair and working to discredit and destroy the Trump presidency, making sure that the powers that be were kept informed. Their text messages reveal their bias and their mission and raises the question: What is seriously wrong with you when you can’t handle the truth?

Bill Kunzweiler, Palm Bay

Don't let 'tax gifts' fool you

Our markets are in the grip of concern about inflation. This is directly related to the fact that the federal tax cut and its resulting deficit were bad ideas. I don't understand why this kind of fiscal stimulus would have been provided at a time when we have had a hot economy and record low unemployment.

It is surprising the markets have waited until now to react negatively. Why did they not flash warning signals when they saw the deficit financed tax cut would pass? Now we have a cratering stock market and a cratering bond market — both described by Alan Greenspan as bubbles.

It is probably inevitable that the developing inflation will cause a recession. A stagflation environment will make the minuscule tax cut seem like the straw that broke the camel's back of a good economy. I have no advice to investors except to pull back and proceed with caution until one can see how serious the inflation will be.

The biggest lesson from all this recent history is not to be sucked in by tax gifts that bring inflation and failing economies. The congressional majority and president couldn't settle for the good economy they inherited from President Obama. They had to try to entice us with a tax handout that was detrimental and increased the federal deficit — all for political expediency.

Now we will have a recession and an increasing deficit at the same time. One benefit will be to silence the president's bragging on the stock market.